Eunan OHalpin, Spying in Ireland During the Second World War (Oxford UP 2008), 380pp. Catherine Switzer, Unionists and Great War Commemoration in the North of Ireland 1914-1939 (Dublin: IAP 2008), 223pp.

Pt. 2 - Memoirs & Productions. 1. Christopher Fitz-Simon, The Dublin Theatre Festival: Social and Cultural Contexts; Production History Part One: 1957-70; 2. Lewis Clohessy, Dublin Theatre Festival: 1984-89; Production History Part Two: 1971-85; 3. David Grant, Present Tense or It shouldnt happen to a festival programmer!; Production History Part Three: 1986-1994 [295]. 4. Tony ODálaigh, Dublin Theatre Festival in the 1990s; Production History Part Four: 1995-2008; Fergus Linehan, Dublin Theatre Festival in the Twenty-First Century

Paul Murphy, Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), ix, 266pp. CONTENTS [chaps.]:
1. Dream of the noble and the beggarman; 2. To live the things I before imagined; 3. Whatever rule we may have, well always have our tramps and paupers; 4. That Ireland which we dreamed of; 5. What kind of a living woman is it that you are at all?; 6. That a black twisty divil could be hiding under such comeliness; 7. Sure if I was a good wife to him; 8. That mightnt be an easy job!; 9. Woman gives to the State.